id:			132954
accession number:	1955.39
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1955.39
updated:		2023-08-23 21:16:56.989000

Center Table, 1600s. China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) - Qing dynasty (1644-1911). Huali (ptero-carpus indicus [Burmese or East Indian Rosewood]); overall: 82.5 x 94 cm (32 1/2 x 37 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection 1955.39

title:				Center Table
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creation date:			1600s
creation date earliest:		1600
creation date latest:		1699
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creditline:			The Norweb Collection
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culture:	China, Ming dynasty (1368-1644) - Qing dynasty (1644-1911)
technique:	huali (ptero-carpus indicus [Burmese or East Indian Rosewood])
department:	Chinese Art
collection:	Chinese Art
type:		Furniture and woodwork
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measurements: Overall: 82.5 x 94 cm (32 1/2 x 37 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>China in 1700: Kangxi Porcelains at the Taft Museum. </em>Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH (September 8-October 23, 1988); Flint Institute of Arts in the DeWaters Art Center, Flint, MI (April 15-June 10, 1989); Ball State University, College of Fine Arts, Art Gallery, Muncie, IN (July 16-September 17, 1989).

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PROVENANCE

	Dr. George N. Kates [1895–1990], Westtown, PA, consigned to Sotheby Parke Bernet Galleries for sale
	date: ?–1955
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	(Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, NY, January 27–28, 1955 sale, lot 389, sold to Frank Caro)
	date: January 1955
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	(Frank Caro [1904–1980], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1955
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1955–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lee, Sherman E. “Chinese Domestic Furniture.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>, vol. 44, no. 3, 1957, pp. 48–53.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 49
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142197

	Keppel, Sheila. <em>China in 1700: Kangxi Porcelains at the Taft Museum: the Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 8-October 23, 1988, Flint Institute of Arts in the DeWaters Art Center, Flint, Michigan, April 15-June 10, 1989, Ball State University, College of Fine Arts, Art Gallery, July 16-September 17, 1989</em>. Cincinnati, OH: The Museum, 1988.
	page number: 	Reproduced: cat. no. 62, p. 15.
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	Sherman E. Lee, "Chinese Domestic Furniture at the Cleveland Museum, " <em>Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society</em>, Vol. 2, number 4 (Autumn, 1992), pp. 68–70.
	page number: 	Reproduced:  fig. 1, p. 68
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